Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
[OMG, you U.S. musicians, wanna do this all the way? Ok, granted.] My dearest aunt is a lesbian! I love my aunt! [mail server, what do you say?] Best, z - Original Message - From: JZ j...@excelsioritsolutions.com To: ZFS Discussions zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday,

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
[sorry, baby don't try!] Best, z - Original Message - From: JZ j...@excelsioritsolutions.com To: ZFS Discussions zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:17 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject) [OMG, you U.S. musicians, wanna do this all the way? Ok,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Carson Gaspar
Richard Elling wrote: ... Most folks who want performance data collection all day long will enable accounting and use sar. sar also uses kstats. Or you can write your own scripts. Or there are a number of third party tools which will collect long-term stats and provide nice reports or

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
[oh, my Lord, I hope it will be a sunny day] 武士道 Best, z - Original Message - From: JZ j...@excelsioritsolutions.com To: ZFS Discussions zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 4:02 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject) [sorry, baby don't try!]

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:18:35 PST Antonius antoni...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the other disk has an EFI label? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv105 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol)

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Casper . Dik
So you're saying zfs does absolutely no right-sizing? That sounds like a bad idea all around... You can use a bigger disk; NOT a smaller disk. Casper ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
I see snow outside. Maybe we don't have early Sun light in the morning, but now is about morning. In my china view (瑞雪兆丰年), and the Xmas view, snow is a very good thing to have on this Sunday morning. I am happy, the sky did not let me down! Best, z - Original Message - From: JZ

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
[this part you may not understand] In the three-kingdoms days, 周瑜 could not believe he said west-wind, and 诸葛 said east-wind, but the sky gave east-wind. 周瑜 was so confused, he died. Today, I am not confused, with the snow, I will live. ;-) Best, z - Original Message - From: JZ

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Antonius
If so what should I do to remedy that? just reformat it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Carson Gaspar car...@taltos.org wrote: If you write your own using kstat, you can get accurate sub-second samples. Sadly you'll either have to use the amazingly crappy Sun perl or write it in C, as Sun hasn't yet managed to release source for the kstat perl

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
meh - Original Message - From: Antonius antoni...@gmail.com To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 6:54 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error If so what should I do to remedy that? just reformat it? -- This

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Thomas Garner thomas...@gmail.com wrote: Are you looking for something like: kstat -c disk sd::: Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the documentation for the above should be at:

[zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Tom Bird
Morning, For those of you who remember last time, this is a different Solaris, different disk box and different host, but the epic nature of the fail is similar. The RAID box that is the 63T LUN has a hardware fault and has been crashing, up to now the box and host got restarted and both came up

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Tom Bird t...@marmot.org.uk wrote: Morning, For those of you who remember last time, this is a different Solaris, different disk box and different host, but the epic nature of the fail is similar. The RAID box that is the 63T LUN has a hardware fault and

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:18 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: So you're saying zfs does absolutely no right-sizing? That sounds like a bad idea all around... You can use a bigger disk; NOT a smaller disk. Casper Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor drive in my pool whose 500g is just slightly larger than every other mfg on the market? You know, the one who is no longer making their

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Casper . Dik
Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor drive in my pool whose 500g is just slightly larger than every other mfg on the market? You know, the one who is no longer making their own drives

[zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
Is it possible to share a folder with cifs without adding a zfs volume? I also have not found out how to share a folder with zfs, is it possible? If it's possible, how? I searched google and this forum but found no answers to my question. Greets Louis Hoefler PS.: I hope this was the right

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Tim wrote: Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor drive in my pool whose 500g is just slightly larger than every other mfg on the market? You know, the one who is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Brad
Well if I do fsstat mountpoint on all the filesystems in the ZFS pool, then I guess my aggregate number for read and write bandwidth should equal the aggregate numbers for the pool? Yes? The downside is that fsstat has the same granularity issue as zpool iostat. What I'd really like is nread

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:38, Louis Hoefler louis.hoef...@struktum.com wrote: Is it possible to share a folder with cifs without adding a zfs volume? Try zfs set sharesmb=on mypool. I also have not found out how to share a folder with zfs, is it possible? I don't think sharing an individual

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:51, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I appreciate that in these times of financial hardship that you can not afford a 750GB drive to replace the oversized 500GB drive. Sorry to hear about your situation. That's easy to say, but what if there were

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Brad bst...@aspirinsoftware.com wrote: Well if I do fsstat mountpoint on all the filesystems in the ZFS pool, then I guess my aggregate number for read and write bandwidth should equal the aggregate numbers for the pool? Yes? The downside is that fsstat has

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:17 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor drive in my pool whose 500g is just slightly larger than every other mfg on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Will Murnane wrote: That's easy to say, but what if there were no larger alternative? Suppose I have a pool composed of those 1.5TB Seagate disks, and Hitachi puts out some of the same capacity that are actually slightly smaller. A drive fails in my array, I buy a Hitachi

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Adam Leventhal a...@eng.sun.com wrote: Right, which is an absolutely piss poor design decision and why every major storage vendor right-sizes drives. What happens if I have an old maxtor drive in my pool whose 500g is just slightly larger than every other mfg

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Will Murnane wrote: That's easy to say, but what if there were no larger alternative? Suppose I have a pool composed of those 1.5TB Seagate disks, and Hitachi puts out some of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Ellis, Mike
Does this all go away when BP-rewrite gets fully resolved/implemented? Short of the pool being 100% full, it should allow a rebalancing operation and possible LUN/device-size-shrink to match the new device that is being inserted? Thanks, -- MikeE -Original Message- From:

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 18:19, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: What do you propose that OpenSolaris should do about this? Take drive size, divide by 100, round down to two significant digits. Floor to a multiple of that size. This method wastes no more than 1% of the disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create ZPOOL with missing disks?

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Klimov
of the oldpool to the newpool with {code} zfs send -R oldp...@20090118-02-postupgrade | zfs recv -vF -d newpool {code} Larger datasets went in the normal range of 13-20Mb/s (of course, smaller datasets and snapshots ranging in a few kilobytes of size took more time to open-close than actually

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Will Murnane wrote: Most drives are sold with two significant digits in the size: 320 GB, 400 GB, 640GB, 1.0 TB, etc. I don't see this changing any time particularly soon; unless someone starts selling a 1.25 TB drive or something, two digits will suffice. Even then,

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Will Murnane wrote: Most drives are sold with two significant digits in the size: 320 GB, 400 GB, 640GB, 1.0 TB, etc. I don't see this changing any time particularly soon; unless

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sun, Jan 18 at 13:43, Tim wrote: You look at the size of the drive and you take a set percentage off... If it's a LUN and it's so far off it still can't be added with the percentage that works across the board for EVERYTHING ELSE, you change the size of the LUN at the storage array

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Hi Bob, Will, Tim, I also had some off-list comments on my irrelevant comments. So I will try to make this post less irrelevant, though my thoughts on this topic may be off the list discussion line of thoughts, as usual. From the major storage vendors I know, network storage systems as

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.orgwrote: On Sun, Jan 18 at 13:43, Tim wrote: You look at the size of the drive and you take a set percentage off... If it's a LUN and it's so far off it still can't be added with the percentage that works across the

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
But what is the recommended way to share a directory? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Louis Hoefler louis.hoef...@struktum.comwrote: But what is the recommended way to share a directory? -- I don't know that there currently is a good way to just share a directory with the built-in cifs server. I'd imagine your best bet would be to use SAMBA.

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Al Tobey
I ran into a bad label causing this once. br/br/ Usually the s2 slice is a good bet for your whole disk device, but if it's EFI labeled, you need to use p0 (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). br/br/ I like to zero the first few megs of a drive before doing any of this stuff. This will destroy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Peter Tribble wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Thomas Garner thomas...@gmail.com wrote: Are you looking for something like: kstat -c disk sd::: Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the documentation for the above should be at:

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Yes, I agree, command interface is more efficient and more risky than GUI. You will have to be very careful when doing that. Best, z - Original Message - From: Al Tobey tob...@gmail.com To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss]

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
Ok I found the share folder gnome gui. Its in coffecup-administration-shared folders. But, if I add a folder with this gui, it does not show up on windows. I tried svcadm restart smb/server but nothing happened. The gui created a /etc/sfw/smb.conf file, which holds the folder I added. I found

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Louis Hoefler wrote: But what is the recommended way to share a directory? You should be able to use sharemgr directly to just share a directory and not an entire file system. If you do that you shouldn't set the sharesmb property, though. Use either the sharesmb property or use sharemgr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Tim t...@tcsac.net wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Tom Bird t...@marmot.org.uk wrote: Those are supposedly the two inodes that are corrupt. The 0x0 is a bit scary... you should be able to find out what file(s) they're tied to (if any) with: find /content -inum 0 find /content

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
comment at the bottom... Tim wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org mailto:edmud...@bounceswoosh.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 18 at 13:43, Tim wrote: You look at the size of the drive and you take a set percentage off... If

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Tom Bird
Tim wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Tom Bird t...@marmot.org.uk mailto:t...@marmot.org.uk wrote: errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files: content:0x0 content:0x2c898 r...@cs4:~# find /content /content r...@cs4:~#

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@sun.com wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: See fsstat, which is based upon kstats. One of the thing I want to do with JKstat is correlate filesystem operations with underlying disk operations. The hard part is actually connecting a

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@sun.comwrote: comment at the bottom... DIY. Personally, I'd be more upset if ZFS reserved any sectors for some potential swap I might want to do later, but may never need to do. If you want to reserve some space for swappage,

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Louis Hoefler louis.hoef...@struktum.comwrote: Ok I found the share folder gnome gui. Its in coffecup-administration-shared folders. But, if I add a folder with this gui, it does not show up on windows. I tried svcadm restart smb/server but nothing

Re: [zfs-discuss] CIFS and zfs

2009-01-18 Thread Louis Hoefler
Ok I found a solution. Thanks for your help. svcadm enable samba wins swat modified /etc/sfw/smb.conf: [global] server string = Unix-Windows share security = SHARE wins server = 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.1 [apache22] comment = Apache 2.2 share path =

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Obama just made a good speech. I hope you were watching TV... Best, z ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread James C. McPherson
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:17:52 -0500 JZ j...@excelsioritsolutions.com wrote: Obama just made a good speech. I hope you were watching TV... JZ, Once more you are using a technical and highly focused mailing list to ramble on about things which are totally irrelevant to the charter of the list.

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Yes, James, I will desist, if you insist. Not a big deal. Best, z - Original Message - From: James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com To: JZ j...@excelsioritsolutions.com Cc: ZFS Discussions zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 4:31 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread The Moog
/cheers! Sent from my BlackBerry Bold® http://www.blackberrybold.com -Original Message- From: James C. McPherson james.mcpher...@sun.com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:31:30 To: JZj...@excelsioritsolutions.com Cc: ZFS Discussionszfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] (no

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Tim wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@sun.com mailto:richard.ell...@sun.com wrote: comment at the bottom... DIY. Personally, I'd be more upset if ZFS reserved any sectors for some potential swap I might want to do later, but may never

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@sun.comwrote: Tim wrote: It is naive to think that different storage array vendors would care about people trying to use another array vendors disks in their arrays. In fact, you should get a flat, impersonal, not supported

[zfs-discuss] Drive failure in an unmirrored pool.

2009-01-18 Thread Timothy Renner
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-1197.html Is a fairly good writeup on this subject... The short and sweet: One disk in a non-mirrored pool dies and is replaced with a new disk... It looks like zpool scrub is able to recover from an error of this magnitude, but getting it to

[zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Timothy Renner
A few questions on data replication: Assuming I've created a pool named zfspool containing two unmirrored disks and I create: zfs create zfspool/test2 zfs set copies=2 zfspool/test2 Will data copied in there be guaranteed to be replicated on both devices? Or does ZFS just try its best to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Timothy Renner timothy.ren...@gmail.comwrote: A few questions on data replication: Assuming I've created a pool named zfspool containing two unmirrored disks and I create: zfs create zfspool/test2 zfs set copies=2 zfspool/test2 Will data copied in there be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Hey, Tom - Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS any sort of redundancy to manage. I'm not sure how you can class it a ZFS fail when the Disk subsystem has failed... Or - did I miss something? :) Nathan. Tom Bird wrote: Morning, For those of you who

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Carson Gaspar
Richard Elling wrote: ... Carson Gaspar wrote: Except sar sucks. It's scheduled via cron, and is too coarse grained for many purposes (10 minute long samples average out almost everything interesting). There is a world of difference between the tools needed to perform debugging and

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace same sized disk fails with too small error

2009-01-18 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sun, Jan 18 at 15:00, Tim wrote: If you're so concerned with the storage *lying* or *hiding* space, I assume you're leading the charge at Sun to properly advertise drive sizes, right? Because the 1TB drive I can buy from Sun today is in no way, shape, or form able to store 1TB of

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Hi Folks, Sorry if this is again not relevant to the list discussion. Maybe I am too sensitive, maybe I am just crazy. But things I see around me today just make me wonder if I should do one more post. [and again, I will leave the conclusion to the mail server] I live in the U.S. My family

Re: [zfs-discuss] (no subject)

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Thank you Lord, for the sunny day today! 安! z方天化戟 [read the three-kingdoms story and you will understand] - Original Message - From: JZ j...@excelsioritsolutions.com To: Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 9:20 PM

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-01-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 18-Jan-09, at 6:12 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: Hey, Tom - Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you are not allowing ZFS any sort of redundancy to manage. Which is particularly catastrophic when one's 'content' is organized as a monolithic file, as it is here - unless, of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aggregate Pool I/O

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Carson Gaspar wrote: Richard Elling wrote: ... Carson Gaspar wrote: Except sar sucks. It's scheduled via cron, and is too coarse grained for many purposes (10 minute long samples average out almost everything interesting). There is a world of difference between the tools needed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive failure in an unmirrored pool.

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Timothy Renner wrote: http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-1197.html Is a fairly good writeup on this subject... The short and sweet: One disk in a non-mirrored pool dies and is replaced with a new disk... Actually, the demo shows how you can corrupt a portion of the data and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Richard Elling
Tim wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Timothy Renner timothy.ren...@gmail.com mailto:timothy.ren...@gmail.com wrote: A few questions on data replication: Assuming I've created a pool named zfspool containing two unmirrored disks and I create: zfs create zfspool/test2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Tim
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@sun.comwrote: This is not quite correct. ZFS will attempt to place the copies on different vdevs. On the same vdev, it will try to place it somewhere which is not contiguous (spatial diversity). I'm curious where you got the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
and that's why I hated blogs! do you know what to read that is not misleading, in a sea of blogs and you are wondering why western folks don't like us?! 言语之中引出的生死恩怨太多了 Best, z - Original Message - From: Tim To: Richard Elling Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread JZ
Beloved Tim, You challenged me a while ago, as a friend. I did what you asked me to do, in the honor of my father. Best, z - Original Message - From: JZ To: Tim Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Tim wrote: Honestly, I believe this list... when other people have asked if they can use the copies= to avoid mirroring everything. I can't say I've saved any of the threads because they didn't seem of any particular importance to me at the time. The extra copies help

Re: [zfs-discuss] Understanding ZFS replication

2009-01-18 Thread Carson Gaspar
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Tim wrote: Honestly, I believe this list... when other people have asked if they can use the copies= to avoid mirroring everything. I can't say I've saved any of the threads because they didn't seem of any particular importance to me at the time.